On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Jonathan Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Bryan > > > > What we disagree on is where the effort is mostly spent. I know for sure that > most of the large amount of time I have myself spent on them has been on > understanding the concepts and how they relate to each other, in order to > describe them clearly and consistently. It seems to me that the majority of > the time is required on the new names which don't conform to existing syntax > or > vocabulary. Perhaps you do agree with that, though? >
I think the issue is the above effort is not written down in a way that the rest of us can utilize. Precise identifiers are find for data providers to tag their data, but in order for those precise tags to be useful for search/interface building they need to be related to each other and their component concepts. This is precisely way I have been pushing to establish URIs for the concepts in CF, including standard names, so that machine-readable documents can be produced that write down that structure. Benno -- Dr. M. Benno Blumenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED] International Research Institute for climate and society The Earth Institute at Columbia University Lamont Campus, Palisades NY 10964-8000 (845) 680-4450 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
